Another important Mildenhall question to think about: Is dialog possible between people of faith and people of doubt? [Viewpoints, Sept. 13]. My answer is an unqualified "Yes"-not only possible but essential. Why so?

News that Downtown Oak Park and the Oak Park Development Corporation (with funding from the village) have hired a part-time business recruiter is a (half) step in the right direction. Oak Park needs someone to actively market the village to businesses and corporations that either haven't heard of us-or have heard negative things.

It is my sincere wish that everyone will give a very warm welcome to the Macy store in Chicago. I don't really understand why so many would-be customers are up-in-arms against such a beautiful department store as Macy's.

With regard to the continuing issue of additional lights at Keystone Park, the River Forest Development Review Board (DRB) ruled on it and made its recommendations to the River Forest Village Board of Trustees.

The changes at West Suburban Hospital which have occurred since its takeover by the Resurrection Health Care System, including a corporate plan to change its accreditation from JCHO to an accrediting agency affiliated with the American Osteopathic Association, a change in its charity care policy and staffing changes have caused me to wonder about the affiliation of this private institution with the government of the Village of Oak Park.

I am writing in response to a statement in Wednesday Journal's editorial, published Sept. 13, regarding its goals for a new superintendent at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Wednesday Journal's editors cannot possibly have been listening or reading the numerous letters and articles published in its own newspaper in recent years. You cannot possibly understand the issues.

While driving my car in Oak Park, recently, I had an encounter that was both unsettling and unnecessary. I started to pull out, and was nearly broadsided by a (helmetless) bicyclist riding on the left side of the street, and with no light.